"Photography is the common language of Modern history." Holland Carter

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Building bricks, killed by bricks

Building bricks, killed by bricks

by Luca Catalano Gonzaga

Bricks are key to the
reconstruction of a country but often also responsible for the destroyal
of those who produce them. This is the sense of the photographic
project “Building bricks, killed by bricks”, by Luca Catalano Gonzaga,
a documentary of this situation in Central Asia – Nepal, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh – that tells the condition in which
the poorest workers survive. Not only do adults work in the kilns, but
especially children and women. Family life also takes place around the
kilns.Cramped homes where entire families live, work and breathe the
product of their efforts. The phenomenon of illiteracy goes hand in hand
with poverty and underdevelopment, which forces millions of children to
leave school before being able to read and write and to go to work
under conditions of exploitation. According to the World Labor
Organization (ILO), there are 250 million children in the world between
the ages of 5 and 17, including 155 million in Asia.